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The head of Red Hat's Desktop division, Christian Schaller, revealed in his blog the team's plans for developing Wayland and completely discontinuing development of the X Window System (X, X11): Christian Schaller: "As soon as we finish with this (the complete dismissal of the need for XWayland, author’s note), we plan to move X.org to a 'sustained support' mode quite quickly. The reality […]
The Concern "Avtomatika," part of the state corporation Rostec, presented the advanced complex "Sapsan-Bekas" at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2019," designed to counter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). "Sapsan-Bekas" is a mobile system built on a compact van chassis. The complex is reported to be capable of disabling both civilian and military drones. "Sapsan-Bekas" can monitor the airspace around the clock and recognize aerial objects […]
The release of the Trident 19.06 operating system has taken place, during which a user-friendly graphical distribution based on FreeBSD technologies is being developed by the TrueOS project, reminiscent of earlier releases of PC-BSD and TrueOS. The installation ISO image size is 3 GB (AMD64). As part of the Trident project, the Lumina graphical environment and all previously available graphical tools from PC-BSD are also being developed.
Some time ago, it became known that an official website dedicated to Huawei's operating system HongMeng OS appeared on the Internet. It contained various information, including technical specifications of the platform, news, and more. Initially, many found the website to be odd. It featured outdated information, and the visual design was rather informal […]
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Microsoft has published all changes and additions to the Linux kernel used in the kernel provided for the WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux v2) subsystem. The second edition of WSL features a complete Linux kernel instead of an emulator that dynamically translates Linux system calls into Windows system calls. The availability of the source code allows enthusiasts to create their own builds of the Linux kernel if desired.
My name is Sasha, and I love machine learning as well as teaching people. I am currently supervising educational programs at the Computer Science center and leading the undergraduate data analysis program at St. Petersburg State University. Previously, I worked as an analyst at Yandex, and before that, I was a researcher involved in mathematical modeling at the Institute of Computational Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In this post, I want to share what came out of the idea […]
A new version of Qt 3D Studio has been released — an editor for creating three-dimensional interfaces and interactive presentations from the Qt framework bundle. One of the main innovations is a radical increase in performance of the runtime component on desktop graphics cards compared to the previous version — 565%, according to the developers' own measurements. This improvement is attributed to a return to the use of OpenGL and a departure from the trends seen in previous versions […]
Humans are social beings. No matter how much an individual tries to be isolated or detached, they will inevitably be influenced by others, often without those others even realizing it. This phenomenon is called interspecies bidirectional psycho-emotional reaction. An important term in this long definition is "interspecies," indicating that such reactions can be observed not only within a group of people, […]
The starter kit based on the new stable branch of ALT p9 is now available. The starter kits are suitable for starting work with a stable repository for users who prefer to choose their own application package list and configure the system. The next planned update is expected on September 12, 2019. This release is noteworthy as it marks the first time starterkits are available for aarch64 and armh. Additionally, […]
Christian Schaller, leading the desktop systems development group at Red Hat and Fedora Desktop Team, mentioned in a review of the plans concerning desktop components in Fedora 31 the intention of Red Hat to discontinue active development of the X.Org server functionality and limit itself to maintaining the existing codebase and fixing bugs. Currently, Red Hat is making […]
The holding company 'Roselectronica', part of the state corporation Rostec, has presented an advanced unmanned aerial vehicle called 'Corsair'. The drone is designed for all-weather aerial reconnaissance, conducting patrol and surveillance flights, as well as for aerial photography. The design of the UAV incorporates innovative engineering solutions that provide advantages in terms of maneuverability, altitude, and flight range. In particular, the 'Corsair' can fly […]